Game Thread 2023-24 Game #37 - BLAZERS @ THUNDER - JANUARY 11, 2023 - THURSDAY - 5:00 PM PST

[Whyachi]

Ant heating up, b2b triples

 

[B-Roy]

Jerami Grant air balls a wide open 3 and then full court pass for a layup. I mean what can you do.

 

[Whyachi]

Thunder up 40, Billups calls timeout.

 

[Chris Craig]

Well, it could be worse. Blazers could be down by 30. Wait, shit. That’s 36 not 26. Dammmmn

It could be 40...wait shit

 

[KingSpeed]

Optimism:

2 seasons ago, the Thunder were 24-58. That’s how quickly we can turn things around as our young players develop and we pick twice in this year’s lottery. Shai wasn’t always an MVP candidate. It takes time to develop.

 

[Whyachi]

Jerami Grant air balls a wide open 3 and then full court pass for a layup. I mean what can you do.

quit running a flat baseline offense that allows easy leak outs?

 

[Tince]

Wasn’t that hard for OKC.

Took them a while, they still have a ways to go, and they're the outlier.

Would be like trying the sell the 41st pick as a great pick because that's where Jokic went in one draft.

 

[Whyachi]

Grant just needs 1 more basket for double figures. Then Chauncey can bench his "core" and bring in the Remix.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

We only have to outscore them by 20 in the rest of this quarter and then 20 in the fourth and we're right back in this!

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Leaderless.

How about "rudderless"?

 

[KingSpeed]

Took them a while, they still have a ways to go, and they're the outlier.

Would be like trying the sell the 41st pick as a great pick because that's where Jokic went in one draft.

That’s a bad analogy. We’ve drafted as well as OKC has,

 

[Hoopguru]

wow....like to see more from Sharpe & Scoot....

 

[Whyachi]

nevermind, there goes Grant & Simons.

 

[GrandpaBlaze]

Jerami Grant air balls a wide open 3 and then full court pass for a layup. I mean what can you do.

Bench Grant & Simons and let the young’uns have a go. Don’t know that it could be worse but so long as either of those two are on the team I expect that mediocrity will be cause for celebration. Surprised if we get there.

They are players, just not “team” players.

In the immortal words of Hook: kill ‘em. Kill ‘em all.

 

[KingSpeed]

How about "rudderless"?

You said ONE word

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Ant heating up, b2b triples

Do that ten times in a row and hold them scoreless...and we're still down by 10.

 

[blazerfan11]

What happened to the good old day earlier this season when the Blazers were bad? Now they’re terrible.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

You said ONE word

I'm offering that one for someone else.

 

[Whyachi]

Giddy triple double

 

[Quatro44]

100 to 50?

 

[Tince]

That’s a bad analogy.

What's bad is comparing the OKC rebuild to the Blazer rebuild.

 

[TBpup]

Leaderless.

How about "rudderless"?

Alphaless

 

[OneSport3]

This looks like a varsity team scrimmaging against the JV team.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Jesus, it was 40, I blinked and it's 47! We really are going for the record. (So Luguentz Dort can be on both ends.)

 

[TBpup]

Giddy triple double

 

[GrandpaBlaze]

You said ONE word

He didn’t specify that the one word could not be a compound word.

Within the rules, complaint rejected.

 

[KingSpeed]

Do that ten times in a row and hold them scoreless...and we're still down by 10.

Huh? 6 times 10= 60. We’d be comfortably ahead.

 

[Whyachi]

100 to 50?

technically down 49
it's 101-52

 

[Rastapopoulos]

At this point I want a Blazer to hit someone. If anything just to end this.

 

[Quatro44]

are the players trying to get Billups fired?